Graph based techniques for user personalization of news streams

  • Authors:
  • Saurabh Kumar;Mayank Kulkarni

  • Affiliations:
  • College of Engineering, Pune, Maharashtra, India;College of Engineering, Pune, Maharashtra, India

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 6th ACM India Computing Convention
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

In this paper, we address the problem of user personalization and recommendation of news streams. This involves 'learning' from past user behaviour, such as the articles she read or did not read and accurately predicting new articles which she would be most likely to read. Our contribution in this paper is the development of a new algorithm for news personalization using an adaptation of the classical nearest neighbour algorithm coupled with a knowledge graph which we create. This algorithm provides a powerful tool for user behaviour analysis as we demonstrate in subsequent sections. Using implicit user data like the articles that were read as well as the articles that weren't along with their position and distance in the graph, we rank new articles on the basis of the predicted interest of the user in the content of that article.